"Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do."

-- Annie Dillard

#Caring Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Humans Quotes

“It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.”
“My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.”
“The highest distinction is service to others.”
“Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.”
“Let us live while we live.”
“As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity”

Source : Philippa Perry, The School of Life (2012). “How to Stay Sane”, p.75, Pan Macmillan
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
“I didn't even know how to shave at 15.”

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